POLITICS: Steve Bannon’s timely release from prison could help Trump win

Former Trump aide Stephen Bannon is set to be released from prison one week before Election Day and the timing could not be more perfect to help Donald Trump defeat Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

That’s according to religious and political writer Myra Adams, who was on the 2004 Bush campaign’s creative team and the 2008 McCain campaign’s ad council.

Bannon, who aptly described himself as a political prisoner, is completing a four-month sentence served in a federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, for contempt of Congress — recent history has taught us that only Republicans are jailed for the crime.

“For three years, Bannon, a controversial, pro-Trump warrior, and a former White House adviser, waged a legal battle to avoid prison after refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas to testify about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, in which he had allegedly been a key player and provocateur,” Adams wrote.

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Bannon’s release, with its movie-like timing, will be a Hollywood ending to modern America’s wildest and contentious presidential campaign.https://t.co/ytiMJBvhid

— Myra K. Adams (@MyraKAdams) October 25, 2024

“Bannon’s release, with its movie-like timing, will be a Hollywood ending to modern America’s wildest and contentious presidential campaign,” she added. “In the last week, Bannon could motivate Trump’s base as a “poster child” for his well-versed judicial weaponization and retribution themes.”

Adams believes Bannon “will likely juice Trump’s get-out-the-vote effort to ‘save America’ from ruin.”

By his presence alone, the former Trump aide is a walking, breathing reminder of the lawfare the Biden-Harris administration has been waging against Trump and his supporters.

On his way into jail, Bannon declared: “I’m a political prisoner of Nancy Pelosi. I’m a political prisoner of Merrick Garland. I’m a political prisoner of Joe Biden and the corrupt Biden establishment.”

In pointing out that Bannon has an “influential podcast,” Adams reminded that he said on his last “War Room” show that he said the Biden-Harris administration had overplayed its hand.

“It doesn’t matter that I’m in prison. The show will be bigger… they’re making me a martyr,” he said.

Adams proceeds to paint Bannon as the “commander in chief” of Trump’s “MAGA shock troops,” who are “awaiting their marching orders” should the election go south for Trump.

“One must never underestimate Bannon’s influence on his passionate, gun-owning, Trump-loving audience,” she wrote. “They are on guard for when minor voting irregularities — real or contrived — are amplified as ‘another’ rigged election ploy to benefit Democrats. Are MAGA shock troops awaiting their marching orders if Trump loses? Bannon is Trump’s commander in chief of outrage, misinformation, and operations from his aptly named ‘War Room.’ Thus, average angst-filled Americans fear Election Day and beyond.”

“Soon, we will know if Trump plans to go ‘full Bannon’ and send his ‘Trump Force One’ plane to fetch his top influencer from prison,” Adams said. “If so, will he land in Washington, D.C., Florida, or a battleground state, for Trump to present MAGA political prisoner number one to adoring crowds for maximum media coverage?”

Concluding that “a right-leaning media circus” can likely be expected, she suggested Trump will “use Bannon’s supposed judicial victimhood as a cattle prod for voter turnout.”